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Tarantula is an amazing nebula. Actually NGC2070 is a star cluster embedded into the nebula, the largest area of emission of HII in the known universe.
Tarantula has a diameter of 1000 ly, apparent diameter as seen from Earth of almost a full moon and is around 100 times the size of M42 in Orion.